[xsl] XPatch: ancestor and count

Subject: [xsl] XPatch: ancestor and count
From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <elsukov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:18:23 +0400
Hi,

I have some XML file, for example:
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<menu>
      <menuitem title="1"/>
      <menuitem title="2">
        <menuitem title="2.1"/>
      </menuitem>
      <menuitem title="3">
        <menuitem title="3.1"/>
        <menuitem title="3.2"/>
        <menuitem title="3.3"/>
        <menuitem title="3.4">
              <menuitem title="3.4.1"/>
              <menuitem title="3.4.2"/>
        </menuitem>
        <menuitem title="3.5"/>
        <menuitem title="3.6">
              <menuitem title="3.6.1"/>
              <menuitem title="3.6.2"/>
        </menuitem>
      </menuitem>
</menu>
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and XLS transform:
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<xsl:template match="menu">
  <table class="menu">
    <tr><td><xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*)"/></td><td>&#xA0;</td></tr>
    <xsl:for-each select="child::menuitem">
     <tr><td><xsl:value-of select="count(.//ancestor::*)"/></td><td>
     <xsl:value-of select="@title"/></td></tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>
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In result the following:
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1         - root element
2    1    - root, menu
3    2    - root, menu, menuitem "2"
5    3    - root, menu, menuitem "3", menuitem "3.4" and what???
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http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116 :
* the ancestor axis contains the ancestors of the context node;
the ancestors of the context node consist of the parent of context
node and the parent's parent and so on;..

* Function: number count(node-set)
The count function returns the number of nodes in the argument node-set.
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Why the result is 5? It should be equal 4, or not?

PS. I use Perl-5.8.5 + LibXML + LibXSLT..
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Best regards,
Andrey V. Elsukov

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